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From: "Human Potential & Development."
Split Justification: Development fundamentally involves both our inner landscape (**Internal World**) and our interaction with everything outside us (**External World**). (Ref: Subject-Object Distinction)..
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From: "Internal World (The Self)"
Split Justification: The Internal World involves both mental processes (**Cognitive Sphere**) and physical experiences (**Somatic Sphere**). (Ref: Mind-Body Distinction)
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From: "Somatic Sphere"
Split Justification: The Somatic Sphere encompasses all physical aspects of the self. These can be fundamentally divided based on whether they are directly accessible to conscious awareness and subjective experience (e.g., pain, touch, proprioception) or whether they operate autonomously and beneath the threshold of conscious perception (e.g., heart rate, digestion, cellular metabolism). Every bodily sensation, state, or process falls into one of these two categories, making them mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Conscious Somatic Experience"
Split Justification: Conscious somatic experiences can be fundamentally divided based on whether their primary focus is on the body's internal condition, physiological state, or spatial configuration (e.g., hunger, proprioception, pain from an organ, fatigue) or whether they are primarily concerned with the body's interaction, contact, or perception of stimuli from the external environment (e.g., touch, temperature, pressure, pain from an external source). These two categories are mutually exclusive as an experience's primary referent is either internal or external to the body's boundary, and comprehensively exhaustive as all conscious somatic experiences fall into one of these two fundamental domains.
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From: "Awareness of External Bodily Interactions"
Split Justification: ** All conscious somatic experiences focused on external interactions can be fundamentally categorized by whether the body is actively initiating and controlling the interaction with the environment (e.g., touching, grasping, applying pressure, manipulating objects) or whether it is passively receiving stimuli or impacts from the external environment (e.g., being touched, feeling ambient temperature, experiencing external pressure or impact). This distinction precisely separates experiences by the primary locus of agency in the interaction, making the categories mutually exclusive, and together they cover the entire scope of awareness of external bodily interactions, thus being comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Awareness of Passive External Bodily Reception"
Split Justification: All conscious experiences of passive external bodily reception can be fundamentally divided based on whether they arise from direct physical forces causing deformation of the body's surface (e.g., touch, pressure, vibration) or from environmental properties (temperature, chemical presence) and potentially harmful stimuli (pain from external sources, regardless of its primary cause). This creates two categories that are mutually exclusive in their primary sensory modality and comprehensively exhaustive for all such passive receptions.
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From: "Awareness of External Thermal, Chemical, and Noxious Stimuli"
Split Justification: ** All conscious awareness of external thermal, chemical, and noxious stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the stimulus's primary characteristic is its capacity to cause pain, discomfort, or potential harm (noxious) or if it primarily conveys information about temperature or chemical presence without being noxious. This distinction provides two mutually exclusive categories based on the presence or absence of a noxious component in the stimulus's effect, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of external thermal, chemical, and noxious stimulation.
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From: "Awareness of External Noxious Stimuli"
Split Justification: All awareness of external noxious stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the stimulus causes or threatens tissue damage through direct physical deformation or disruption (mechanical forces) or through extreme temperature changes or chemical interactions at a molecular level. This categorizes all noxious stimuli by their primary physical or chemical mechanism of action on bodily tissues, making the distinction mutually exclusive and comprehensively exhaustive.
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From: "Awareness of External Mechanically Induced Noxious Stimuli"
Split Justification: All awareness of external mechanically induced noxious stimuli can be fundamentally divided based on whether the mechanical force causes a physical breach or discontinuity in the body's tissues (e.g., a cut, puncture, or tear) or whether it primarily causes deformation, compression, or stretching of tissues while their integrity remains intact (e.g., a bruise, sprain, or crushing injury without a surface wound). This distinction is mutually exclusive as an injury either breaches tissue integrity or it does not, and comprehensively exhaustive for all forms of mechanically induced noxious stimuli.
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From: "Awareness of External Mechanically Induced Noxious Stimuli from Intact Tissue Deformation"
Split Justification: All awareness of external mechanically induced noxious stimuli that deform intact tissue can be fundamentally divided based on the temporal profile of the mechanical force application: either as a sudden, brief, high-intensity event (acute) or as a prolonged, persistent application of force (sustained). This distinction precisely categorizes the experience based on the dynamic nature of the mechanical stimulus, making the categories mutually exclusive, and together they comprehensively cover all forms of awareness of external mechanically induced noxious stimuli from intact tissue deformation.
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From: "Awareness of External Mechanically Induced Noxious Stimuli from Acute Intact Tissue Deformation"
Split Justification: All awareness of external mechanically induced noxious stimuli from acute intact tissue deformation can be fundamentally divided based on the spatial concentration of the applied force: either the force is primarily localized to a small area of tissue or it is distributed over a broader area. This distinction, based on the spatial profile of the mechanical load, is mutually exclusive as a force is either concentrated or spread, and comprehensively exhaustive as all acute mechanical forces on intact tissue will fall into one of these two spatial categories.
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From: "Awareness of External Mechanically Induced Noxious Stimuli from Acute Distributed Intact Tissue Deformation"
Split Justification: All awareness of external mechanically induced noxious stimuli from acute distributed intact tissue deformation can be fundamentally divided based on whether the predominant mechanical force involves the compression of tissues (i.e., pushing them together) or whether it involves other forms of deformation such as stretching (pulling apart), shearing (sliding past each other), or twisting (torsion). This distinction categorizes the experience based on the primary physical mechanism of distributed tissue deformation, making the categories mutually exclusive as a predominant force is either compressive or one of the other three types, and comprehensively exhaustive as all forms of mechanical tissue deformation fall into one of these fundamental categories.
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Topic: "Awareness of External Mechanically Induced Noxious Stimuli from Acute Distributed Tensile, Shearing, or Torsional Intact Tissue Deformation" (W7545)